DVD - Hitchcock (12A)

Anthony Hopkins is a perfect Hitchcock in this film based on a super-fan’s book about the period when the svengali of horror was making his best-known work, Psycho.

Playing opposite Hopkin’s introverted genius is Dame Helen Mirren as the ballsy brains of the power couple, his wife, Alma. Scarlett Johnasson is a little stiff as Hitchcock’s flavour of the month and the starlet immortalised in that shower scene, Janet Leigh, but she’s buoyed by an otherwise faultless cast which includes Toni Collette as the long-suffering right-hand woman, Peggy.

As well as depicting the pioneer of suspense’s well-documented obsessiveness over his leading ladies, the productive, dynamic yet still warm relationship between business and life partners, Alfred and Alma, is affectionately captured.